Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy

(1804-1878)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hardy, Thomas Duffus, Sir, 1804-1878 NRA: Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1804-1878) Knight Archivist DNB: Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1804–1878), historian and archivist LBT ID: ThHardy1878 VIAF ID: 5022103 LOC ID: n85252378	B/BAP: 1804-05-22 DIED: 1878-06-15
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As clerk in the record office in the Tower of London from 1819 he became an authority on medieval manuscripts and was knighted in 1869.
REFERENCES TO Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy: Sydney Smith to Sir Robert Peel, 5 May 1844 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter X